The Mackintosh Building at Glasgow School of Art rebuild ‘complete within ten years’

The historic Mackintosh building at Glasgow School of Art is to be rebuilt though it is expected to take up to ten years to complete, The Times can reveal. Penny Macbeth, director and chief executive, said the reconstruction was part of her wider plan for the school, in which the

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Mackintosh in the Saleroom

Next month at Sotheby’s Scottish Art Sale in London, this fine perspective drawing by Charles Rennie Mackintosh of Queen Margaret College will go on sale. CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH 1868-1928 PERSPECTIVE DRAWING OF THE ANATOMICAL SCHOOL, QUEEN MARGARET COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW signed and inscribed UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW/QUEEN MARGARET COLLEGE MEDICAL

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Mackintosh in the Saleroom

Frances Macdonald McNair was a pivotal artist and designer in the development of the Glasgow Style and Art Nouveau aesthetic in Scotland. Unfortunately only a small group of designs and photographs of executed items survive. Four beautiful jewellery designs appear in the forthcoming Lyon & Turnbull in Edinburgh, Design Since

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